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“The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.”

World May Long Art Form Expression Criticism Critics Artistic Contemplation Works Of Art Contemplating Artistic Expression

Book:Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82

Source: Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82

“I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.”

Running Critics Quitting Producers Truck

Author:Jack Lemmon

“To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.”

Way Inspirational Art Practice Quiet Criticism Critics Library Modest

Book:Extraordinary tales

Source: Extraordinary tales

“I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.”

Thinking Years Film Six Expectations Direct Performances Critics Severe Distracted

Author:Ken Burns

“A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.”

Literature Criticism Critics Worms Liver

Book:The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx

Source: The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx

“But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.”

Ifs Giving I Can Values Written Dad Criticism Critics My Dad Honestly Call Me Reviews Ecstatic

Author:Fiona Apple

“I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself.”

Ifs Knows Mind Firsts Made Important Winning Liberty Opinion Risk Criticism Critics Makers Humbling

Author:John Lahr

“Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.”

Thinking Feels Real Social Modern Stage Sight Critics Admire Observation Print Disagree Mary Eloquence Spectacles

Author:John Lahr

“The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.”

Art Made Speak Sides Practice Streets Drama Authority Critics Magazines Made It Both Sides New Yorkers

Author:John Lahr

“What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.”

May Mean Art Asks Impossible Critics Borders Extending

Book:You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

“Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.”

Thinking Art Soul Critics Journalist Worthwhile Talk To Me Maggots Don't Talk To Me

Author:Jonathan Raban

“The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.”

World Way Mind Father Literature Walks Generations Modern Critics Preserves Our Father

Book:The Greek way ; The Roman way

Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way

“Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.”

Doe Facts Support Failing Teaching College Majors Research Evidence Critics University Tendencies Neglect Professors Attributes Thesis Undergraduate

Author:Derek Bok

“A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.”

Giving Opinion Listening Critics Rate Statements Balanced Sweeping Second Rate

Book:Collected Pruse

Source: Collected Pruse

“We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't know each other. Never do, probably never will. Our reputations depend on the opinions of the ill informed. We all have better moments than anybody ever knows, and so do all the others. We are, each one of us, books that are read by critics who only glanced at the chapter headings and the jacket flap. Each one of us is a secret, and on that basis we ought to treat each other with the deepest respect.”

“No Matter what you do there will be critics.”

Matter Wise No Matter What Critics

Author:Woody Allen

“There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.”

Firsts Kind Art Funny Used Artist Saws Modern Painting Judging Humorous First Time Critics Russia Selling Soviet Critique Palette Modern Art Bulldozers Art Critic

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him-but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope-qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.”

Source: My Generation: Collected Nonfiction

“I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.”

Country Brain Critics

Author:Jerry Lewis

“There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.”

Lying Critics Versions

Author:Elvis Costello

“I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.”

Care Critics Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Virgil Thomson

“The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.”

Successful Judging Critics Criteria

Author:Peter Bogdanovich

“All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.”

World Judging Critics Envy Profession Competent

Author:William Hogarth

“I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.”

Way Wells Facts Imagination Behinds Capitalism Critics Including Suspects Assets Crucial Economist Undertakings Lag Ruthlessness Inventiveness

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.”

Persons Made Hard Might Film Criticism Tables Critics Awful Muffins

Author:Denzel Washington

“Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.”

Writing Problem Reader Critics Sentimentality

Author:Mitch Albom

“In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?”

Book Age Tears Building Garden Critics Wilderness Pens Boots Alas Havoc

Author:Aubrey Beardsley

“Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.”

Ifs Book Bigs Reading Cutting Criticism Hollywood Critics Release Perceive Cheaper Kinder Books And Reading

Author:Ethan Coen

“Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.”

People Made Love You Criticism Critics Critical Remarks

Author:Federico Mayor Zaragoza

“David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet”

Way Looks Girl Genius Criticism Performances Blue Response Critics Sorry Fats Comment I'm Sorry Velvet Fat Girl Blue Velvet

Author:Isabella Rossellini

“Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.”

Writing Firsts Mean Persons Film Reading Effects Poet Huge Criticism Critics Novelists Historian Great Writers Stylist Film Criticism

Author:Greil Marcus

“Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.”

Sometimes Critics Filmmaker

Author:Wim Wenders

“It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.”

Hard Today Cutting Written Materials Concern Independent Critics Lists Magazines Invited Publish Screening Distributors

Author:Wim Wenders

“Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.”

Mind May Emotional Musician Music Is Critics Mood Slipping Frame Of Mind Unemotional

Author:Nat King Cole

“I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.”

People Has Beens Actors Critics

Author:Chuck Norris

“I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.”

Firsts Wine Entrepreneur Critics

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.”

Way Ideas Problem Creative Picks Originals Critics Leaving Abstract Pens Editing Edits Snob

Author:Glen Hansard

“In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this.”

People Thinking Trying Feelings Process Term Realizing Struggle Pieces Critics Resolution Cant

Author:Godfrey Reggio

“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.”

Writing Next Literature Generations Youth Ought Critics

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.”

Thinking Firsts Song Critics Melody Depressing

Author:Aloe Blacc

“Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.”

World Has Beens Reality Enjoy Mass Critics Veils Revolt Toiling

Book:Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

“I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Care Hate Mines Performances Critics Don't Care I Don't Care Kicks Irrelevant Reviewers

Author:Stephen Baldwin

“Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.”

Thinking Writing Trying Littles Ego Critics Math

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.”

Difficult Critics Screens

Author:Devon Aoki

“Everybody is their own critic.”

Critics

Author:Gina Carano

“Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.”

Humans War States Literature United Enemy United States Rights Fronts Abuse Critics Human Rights Iraq Terror Afghanistan Captured January War On Terror Guantanamo Guantanamo Bay Detaining

Author:Linda Chavez

“The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.”

Giving Wells Littles Ends Wonderful Draws Critics Drawing Best Work Auctions

Author:Marlene Dumas

“It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.”

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Author:Errol Flynn

“Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV season. On any individual day, there isn't room for both of them; and that's healthy.”

Ifs Enough Moving Suffering Fall Individual Rooms Fronts Tvs Keys Internet Healthy Pages Seasons Critics Advertising Depressing Exclusive Limitless Inventory Hbo Sponsorship Showtime Jezebel

Author:Nick Denton

“A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.”

Want Firsts Looks Critics Impression Compare Lazy First Impression

Author:Willem Dafoe

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